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Tuesday, August 4, 2015

Carpe Diem Modern Times Haiku #1 mother’s scarf

Dear
Haijin, visitors and travelers,

It’s my pleasure to introduce an all new feature to you. Mostly we, at CDHK,
are focused on classical haiku masters, but I think in our time we have also
great haiku poets. I would like to introduce to you on a bi-weekly
sequence to modern haiku poets, say from 1900 until now. As I thought about
this feature I sought the Internet for a long time and I have found a few
wonderful websites to extract my information about these modern haiku
poets from.

As always there is a kind of task bound to every new feature. For this feature
I love to ask you to write an all new haiku (or tanka) inspired on the given
haiku, but they have to follow the rules of the classical haiku:

5-7-5

a kigo or seasonword

a kireji or cutting word (: ; , and so on)

nature as it’s theme and humankind as part of it

a moment as short as the sound of a pebble thrown into water

interchanging the first and third line

and (if possible) a deeper meaning, based on Zen Buddhism or another
religious or spiritual kind of belief.

For this
first episode of “Carpe Diem Modern Times Haiku“ I have a haiku poetess for you, Peggy Willis Lyles
(1939-2010). In every episode I will try to give a brief biography of the
poet and so here I have a brief biography of Peggy Willis Lyles.

Peggy
Willis Lyles was born in Summerville, South Carolina, on September 17, 1939.
She died in Tucker, Georgia on September 3, 2010. A former English professor,
she was a leading haiku writer for over 30 years—helping bring many readers and
writers into the haiku community. Her voice and guidance will be missed in the
community, but we know that her haiku will continue to touch so many souls in
the future.

And of
course I will share a few of the haiku which were written by these modern haiku
poets. Here I have a few written/composed by Peggy. The first haiku was for me
the reason to create this feature, because that haiku touched me deep ...

All
wonderful haiku with a nice and strong scene. I hadn’t heard of Peggy Willis
Lyles until a few days ago, but I fell in love with her haiku. With her the
world lost a wonderful poet in 2010. She will be missed forever ... leaving an
enormous heritage of gorgeous haiku.

I became inspired to write a haiku about "Spanish Moss" after reading her haiku. I never had seen Spanish Moss ... so as the above image came along on the Internet I just thought "this is worth a new haiku".

Isn't it awesome! What a beautiful haiku Peggy Willis Lyles has written ... for sure worth reading more of her work. I hope you did like this new CDHK feature and I hope it will inspire you to write an all new haiku (or tanka).

This episode is NOW OPEN for your submissions and will remain open until August 18th at noon (CET). Have fun, be inspired and share your all new haiku or tanka with us all here at our Haiku Kai

What a great new challenge, Kristjaan! Your haiku is truly exceptional. Sheer beauty to read, re-read and let it...sink in.And thank you for introducing to the haiku of Peggy Willis-Lyles - unknown to me but a beautiful (and educational) discovery.

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Carpe Diem is the place to be if you like to write and share haiku (or another Japanese poetry form like e.g. tanka). It's a family of haiku loving poets.Japanese poetry is known as the impression of a short moment, say a heartbeat or an eye-blink, in which nature plays an important role.It's free to participate in Carpe Diem. By participating in Carpe Diem, you agree with the use of your work in the exclusive e-book series of Carpe Diem.Of course your work will be credited as Carpe Diem always does. However all the texts and works at Carpe Diem are copyrighted and the rights belong to the authors.

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